The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 15, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Rev. Allen Brill
Liberals get cross-wise

EDITORIAL
Yes, Ashley, there are populist Democrats

JIM HIGHTOWER
Pin-striped larceny; 'Fixing' Social Security; George loves parks; Subsidizing drug-company gouging; ExxonMobil attacks Greenpeace; Muse of corporate cash

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Time for new resolutions

DISPATCHES
Kerry playing rope-a-dope? Full medal jacket ...

DANIEL KEMMIS
Dems hope for new day in the West

JIM FRENCH
Bullied market

JIM STILES
Ruminating on cows

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Who's to blame for drought?

TED RALL
What will President Kerry do?

GENE LYONS
Finding Heartland or losing marbles?

JOYCE BRAITHWAITE-BRICKLEY
Familiar smell from Bush White House

JOHN BUELL
Security in an age of terrorism

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Stossel tries to scam his public

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Fanatics and fools

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
PATRIOT games

NATHAN NEWMAN
Kerry's tax credit fiscal trick

PAPER CUTS/Judith Gorman
Show me the jobs

FIXING ELECTIONS/Steven Hill
Europe leaves US behind

ROGER BYBEE
Kerry's 'Benedict Arnold Democrats'

WAYNE O'LEARY
Real solutions to outsourcing

MICHAEL WESSEL
Enforcement the key to trade policy

HOLLY SKLAR
Wealthy taxpayers bank on Bush

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
Block the vote

JESSE JACKSON
Excuses won't work on Iraq

OUCH/Public Campaign
Working harder for less

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
HMOs: Mirage in the presidential pulpit

CHRIS PEPUS
Class at Harvard

MARK ENGLER
Unhappy birthday, World Bank!

SAM SMITH
Is this the best the Dems can do?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
How 'NewsHour' changed history

GEOV PARRISH
The gagging of Capt. Yee

SAM URETSKY
Bush oversees opium comeback

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
'Bushist' agenda strikes fear

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Clouds loom over Kerry challenge

RECOVERY/Larry Kearney
Responsibility requires memory

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Crumbling school motivates kids

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Questionable alliances

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush not feeling pain of troops' kin

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN
No Braveheart running the White House

BOOK/James M. Yeager
McCarthy bio not close, no cigar either

PEGGY ROBERSON
McGrory never lost the reporter's eye

GEORGE BERES
College sports' big spenders, big decisions

MOLLY IVINS
Fantasyland of free; Foolish consistency; Who decides?

DONALD KAUL
Congress gets Rice pudding


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